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 ✅Birth Rate • Number of live births per 1000 of population per year.  ✅Death rate (DR) • Number of deaths per 1000 people per year.  ✅Sex ratio at birth (SRB) • Number of male births per female births.  ✅Total fertility rate (TFR) • Total number of children born or likely to be born to a woman in her life time.  ✅Neonatal mortality rate • Probability of dying between birth and 28 days of age, expressed per 1,000 live births.  ✅Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) • Number of maternal deaths per 1,00,000 live births.  ✅Infant mortality rate (IMR) • Number of deaths under 1 year of age occurring for 1000 live births in a given year.  ✅Under-five mortality rate (U5MR) • Probability of dying between birth and exactly 5 years of age, expressed per 1,000 live births.

National Program and Project Management Policy Framework’  (NPMPF)  □  Launched by :  NITI Aayog and Quality Council of India (QCI).  □  The framework envisages to bring radical reforms in the way infrastructure projects are executed in India. □  Key Points :  ◇ Adopt a program and project management approach to infra development.  ◇ Institutionalize and promote the profession of program and project management and build a workforce of such professionals. ◇ Enhance institutional capacity and capability of professionals. 

 Manjusha Painting  🔶This art form belongs to Bhagalpur region of Bihar. 🔶 It is also known as Angika art, where ‘ang’ refers to one of the Mahajan Pada.  🔶Since snake motifs are always present, it is also called snake painting.  🔶These paintings are generally executed on boxes of jute and paper.

 Amended Technology Up-gradation Fund Scheme (ATUFS) ✅ Union Minister of Textiles reviewed the ATUFS. ♻️ About ATUFS: ✅ The Ministry of Textiles had introduced the Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme (TUFS) in 1999 as a credit-linked subsidy scheme intended for modernization and technology up-gradation of the Indian textile industry, promoting ease of doing business, generating employment and promoting exports. ✅ Since then, the scheme has been implemented in different versions. ✅ The ongoing ATUFS has been approved in 2016 and is being implemented through a web-based iTUFS platform. ✅ Under this, Capital Investment Subsidy is provided to benchmarked machinery installed by the industry after physical verification. ✅ This is a credit-linked subsidy scheme for capital investment in the manufacturing and textiles sector under the Make in India as well as Zero Defect and Zero Effect initiative of the Government of India.  ✅ The scheme is being administered with a two-stage monitori...

 Chambal River ✅The Chambal River is a tributary of the Yamuna River in central India, and thus forms part of the greater Gangetic drainage system.  ✅The river flows north-northeast through Madhya Pradesh, running for a time through Rajasthan then forming the boundary between Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh before turning southeast to join the Yamuna in Uttar Pradesh state ✅The perennial Chambal originates at Janapav, south of Mhow town, near Manpur, Indore, on the south slope of the Vindhya Range in Madhya Pradesh. ✅ It ends a confluence of five rivers, including the Chambal, Kwari, Yamuna, Sind, Pahuj, at Pachnada near Bhareh in Uttar Pradesh state, at the border of Bhind and Etawah districts. ✅The Chambal River is considered pollution free, and hosts an amazing riverine faunal assemblage including 2 species of crocodilians – the mugger and gharial, 8 species of freshwater turtles, smooth-coated otters, gangetic river dolphins, skimmers, black-bellied terns, sarus cranes and bl...

✅ CounterMEASURE programme  🅾️ Purpose : The CounterMEASURE project works to identify sources and pathways of plastic pollution in river systems in Asia, particularly the Mekong and the Ganges 🅾️CounterMEASURE is managed by the UN Environment Programme’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. 🅾️National Productivity Council and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) from India are partners to this programme. 

  INDIAN COUNCIL ACT 1909  #Historicalbackground This Act is also known as Morley-Minto Reforms (Lord Morley was the then Secretary of State for India and Lord Minto was the then Viceroy of India). □ The features of this Act were as follows :- ◇ It considerably increased the size of the legislative councils, both Central and provincial. The number of members in the Central legislative council was raised from 16 to 60. The number of members in the provincial legislative councils was not uniform. ◇ It retained official majority in the Central legislative council, but allowed the provincial legislative councils to have non official majority. ◇ It enlarged the deliberative functions of the legislative councils at both the levels. For example, members were allowed to ask supplementary questions, move resolutions on the budget and so on.  ◇ It provided (for the first time) for the association of Indians with the executive councils of the Viceroy and Governors. ◇ Satyendr...

  What is Vanniyar Movement ?  Vanniyars are one of the largest and most consolidated backward communities in Tamil Nadu They had raised massive protests in the mid-1980s demanding 20% reservation in the state, and 2% in central services. During agitation from September 17 to 23, 1987, many protesters were killed.   In 1989, the OBC quota was split into two: Backward Castes and Most Backward Castes Vanniyars were categorised among the MBCs with 107 other communities, with 20% reservation. Three decades later, the state government passed a Bill, and the current government has implemented it with a Government Order ensuring 10.5% reservation for Vanniyars within the 20% MBC quota. 

 Zero Hour   ✅Zero Hour is an Indian parliamentary innovation. It is not mentioned in the parliamentary rules book.  ✅Under this, MPs can raise matters without any prior notice.  ✅ It starts immediately after the question hour and lasts until the agenda for the day (i.e. regular business of the House) is taken up. 

 All Ministries/Independent Organization list 1 Cabinet Secretariat http://cabsec.nic.in/ 2 Comptroller & Auditor General http://www.cag.gov.in/ 3 Department of Atomic Energy http://dae.nic.in/ 4 Department of Space http://www.isro.gov.in  5 Election Commission of India http://eci.nic.in 6 HIGH COURT OF DELHI http://delhihighcourt.nic.in/  7 Ministry of Agriculture http://agriculture.gov.in  8 Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers https://chemicals.nic.in 9 Ministry of Civil Aviation http://www.civilaviation.gov.in/ 10 Ministry of Coal https://www.coal.nic.in/  11 Ministry of Commerce & Industry http://commerce.gov.in/ 12 Ministry of Communications & Information Tech. http://meity.gov.in/ 13 Ministry of Consumer Aff., Food, & Public Dist. http://fcamin.nic.in/ 14 Ministry of Corporate Affairs http://www.mca.gov.in/ 15 Ministry of Culture http://www.indiaculture.nic.in/ 16 Ministry of Defence http://mod.nic.in/ 17 Ministry of Development of Nort...

 ✅UPSC Prelims Negative Marking ✅GS-1=Each incorrect answer carries a negative marking of o.33%, which means for every wrong answer 0.66 marks will be deducted. ✅GS-2 (CSAT) =Candidates must remember that there is negative marking in the CSAT paper. For every incorrect answer, the candidate is penalised 1/3rd of the total marks allotted to that question, i.e., 0.83 marks will be cut.

 Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC)    A Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) is set up to examine a particular bill presented before the Parliament, or for the purpose of investigating cases of financial irregularities in any   government activity. ✅ The JPC is an ad-hoc body.  ✅It is set up for a given period of time and is aimed at addressing a specific issue.   ▪️ Composition :   ✅ In order to set up a JPC, a motion is passed in one House and supported by the other House.  ✅ The committee’s members are decided by Parliament.  ✅The number of members can vary. There are twice as many Lok Sabha members as the Rajya Sabha.  ▪️ Powers and Functions :  ✅A JPC is authorised to collect evidence in oral or written form or demand documents in   connection with the matter.  ✅The proceedings and findings of the committee are confidential, except in matters of public interest.  ✅ The government can take the decision ...

 ✍कुछ महान कार्यों से सम्बंधित व्यक्ति।  1. ब्रह्म समाज – राजाराममोहन राय 2. आर्य समाज – स्वामी दयानंद सरस्वती 3. प्रार्थना समाज – आत्माराम पांडुरंग 4. दीन-ए-इलाही, मनसबदारी प्रथा – अकबर 5. भक्ति आंदोलन – रामानुज 6. सिख धर्म – गुरु नानक 7. बौद्ध धर्म – गौतमबुद्ध 8. जैन धर्म – महावीर स्वामी 9. इस्लाम धर्म की स्थापना, हिजरी सम्वत – हजरत मोहम्मद साहब 10. पारसी धर्म के प्रवर्तक – जर्थुष्ट 11. शक सम्वत – कनिष्क 12. मौर्य वंश का संस्थापक – चन्द्रगुप्त मौर्य 13. न्याय दर्शन – गौतम 14. वैशेषिक दर्शन – महर्षि कणाद 15. सांख्य दर्शन – महर्षि कपिल 16. योग दर्शन – महर्षि पतंजली 17. मीमांसा दर्शन – महर्षि जैमिनी 18. रामकृष्ण मिशन – स्वामी विवेकानंद 19. गुप्त वंश का संस्थापक – श्रीगुप्त 20. खालसा पन्थ – गुरु गोविन्द सिंह 21. मुगल साम्राज्य की स्थापना – बाबर 22. विजयनगर साम्राज्य की स्थापना – हरिहर व बुक्का 23. दिल्ली सल्तनत की स्थापना – कुतुबुद्दीन ऐबक 24. सतीप्रथा का अंत – लॉर्ड विलियम बेंटिक 25. आंदोलन : असहयोग,सविनय अवज्ञा, खेडा, चम्पारन, नमक, भारत छोडो – महात्मा गाँधी 26. हरिजन संघ की स्...

 कला समेकित शिक्षा  Art Integrated Learning  1. कला समेकित शिक्षा किसके द्वारा कार्यान्वित किया जाता सकता है?  उत्तर- कोई भी शिक्षक  2. कला एकीकृत शिक्षा  _______ के विकास में मदद करवा हैं।  उत्तर - संज्ञानात्मक , मनो-प्रेरक और भावात्मक ज्ञान क्षेत्र  3. कला समेकित शिक्षा को लागु करने के लिए निम्नलिखित में से कौन सा अनिवार्य है ?  उत्तर - कला समेकित शिक्षा शिक्षा शास्त्र पर एक शिक्षक की क्षमता निर्माण  4. ए आई एल एक पार पाठ्यक्रम, ( क्रॉस-करिकुलर ) शैक्षणिक दृष्टिकोण हैं, जहाँ शिक्षार्थियों को स्वतंत्र अभिव्यक्ति के लिए पर्याप्त स्थान और गुंजाइश मिलती हैI  उत्तर - सच है, ए आई एल एक क्रॉस-करिकुलर शैक्षणिक दृष्टिकोण हैं  5. कला एकीकृत शिक्षा द्वारा पूरा नहीं किया जाता है ?  उत्तर- छात्र सभी कला रूपों के विशेषज्ञ बनते हैं।  6. माध्यमिक स्तर पर कला को किन विषयों के साथ एकीकृत किया जा सकता हैं?  उत्तर - कला को सभी विषयों के साथ एकीकृत किया जा सकता है  7. लोक दृश्य कलाओं में रंग प्राप्त करने का एक अपरंपरागत तरीका ...